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# Contribution Guidelines

Hey there 👋🏽 Welcome to OSCA design! We always need and welcome more contributors.

## Join our conversation

You can join the discussions in the OSCA `#design` channel on [Discord](https://discord.gg/8STPZzN), under the OSS groups category.

* **Visual designs** - Event and Social media flyers, Patterns, illustrations, wallpapers, swags ideas(stickers, t-shirts etc).
* **UI and UX** - mostly web centric for now - official websites and sub domains.
* **Design documention** - if you'd love to write about Open Source Design, suggest changes our existing documentions like the design style guides etc.

## Unsure of how to get involved to OSCA as a **designer**?

You can join the discussions in the O.S.C.A **design** channel on [Discord](https://discord.gg/8STPZzN), under the OSS groups category. Feel free to introduce yourselve, we're all joyful people :). You can also talk to us about any of the design-related issues.

## Catch up?

If you want to contribute, it is good to first familiarise yourself with our existing design work.

* [Website style guide](https://www.figma.com/file/dDQ0f43gracsqn1LJYk91E/New-OSCA-website?node-id=608%3A0)
* [Go through OSCA's brand assests](https://github.com/oscafrica/Design/tree/master/Brand%20Assets)
* [See Festival assests and designs](https://github.com/oscafrica/Design/tree/master/OSCAFEST'20%20Assets)

NB: Primary the fonts we use are:

* [Ubuntu](https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Ubuntu?query=ubun) designed by Dalton Maag
* [Gotham](https://www.downloadfonts.io/gotham-font-family-free/) design by Tobias Frere-Jones

## Issues?

You can start by looking through the `good first issues` label. Also, you might want to contribute to a particular aspect of design that you’re most proficient in … don’t worry we’ve got you! Each design task is given a label of the type of design work required to complete that issue `UI/UX`, `graphics`, `design-documentation`.

**Yes! 💪🏽 seen what you’d love to help with?**

Just start, you don’t need approval from anyone. Once you have something ready for review, drop a comment and someone will attend to you ☺️.

We can’t wait to receive your contributions! :) Feel free to talk to us about any of the design-related issues.


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